Crystal Palace started the opening day of the Premier League in stark contract to last season, beating newly-promoted Fulham 2-0.

It took them until October last year to get the same amount of points that they have after the opening day of the season, with the Eagles getting beat 3-0 by Huddersfield that time around this.

However, a professional performance ensured there was no repeat at Craven Cottage, with Jefferey Schlupp and Wilfried Zaha goals giving Roy Hodgson's three points to get their 2018/19 campaign off to the best possible start.

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Palace allowed Fulham to have possession of the football in the first half but it was them who go the breakthrough, when Patrick Van Aanholt played in Schlupp who smashed the ball into the roof of the net just before half time.

After that the top flight experience shone through for Palace, who didn't look troubled for much of the rest of the game and it was key man Zaha that made sure of the three points when he tucked the ball under Fabri for his first goal of the campaign.

While it was the usual name of Zaha on the score sheet, it was 20-year-old Aaron Wan-Bissaka that impressed the most in the game.